Congratulations to the recipients of the 2016 YIBS Doctoral Pilot and Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Awards!
Twenty-two doctoral students from the Schools of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Public Health, and Engineering & Applied Science and the Departments of Geology & Geophysics, Anthropology, and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology will use YIBS support to carry out environmental research in the coming year. Stay tuned for research updates from our grantees!
Doctoral Pilot Awards
Janet Burke (Geology & Geophysics): Planktonic foraminiferal morphology and porosity in a cooling ocean
Chloe Chen-Kraus (Anthropology): Assessing impacts of anthropogenic disturbance on lemurs at Bezà Mahafaly Special Reserve, Madagascar
Devon Cole (Geology & Geophysics): Silica cycling through the biosphere across the Permian-Triassic Extinction
Matteo Fabbri (Geology & Geophysics): 4D dynamics of cells and tissues to revolutionize neurogenesis in Archosauria
Jessica Glass (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology) A comparison of stable isotope analytical techniques for a marine teleost predator, the Giant Trevally (Caranx ignobilis)
Michael Hanson (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology): The development and evolution of cranial kinesis in birds
Myles Lennon (Anthropology): Diversifying the solar market from the top-down and bottom-up
Daniel MacGuigan (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology): Environmental effects on genomic signatures of hybridization
Jon Powell (Engineering & Applied Science): Establishing waste informatics to mitigate materials management impacts to the terrestrial biosphere
Peter Umunay (Forestry & Environmental Studies): Quantifying emissions from human-induced causes of forest degradation in the Congo Basin Region
Christopher Whalen (Geology & Geophysics): Phylogenetic systematics of Pan-Gnathostomata
Siyang Xia (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology): Oviposition preference in sylvatic and domestic populations of Aedes aegypti in Gabon
Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Awards
David Auerbach (Geology & Geophysics): Understanding the evolution of the Patagonian rain shadow through the Cenozoic
Katelyn Gray (Geology & Geophysics): Reconstructing terrestrial climates using gar scales
Lan Jin (Forestry & Environmental Studies): Air pollution and adverse birth outcomes in Lanzhou, China
Hui Li (Geology & Geophysics): New internal biothermometer in biomass-PO4 to study vent macrobiota at the seafloor and microbial life beneath the seafloor
Holger Petermann (Geology & Geophysics): Influence of changes in climate on squamate growth: Implications for future biodiversity loss
Natalie Schultz (Forestry & Environmental Studies): Quantitative analysis of the effects of land cover change on climate extremes
Noah Sokol (Forestry & Environmental Studies): From plant carbon to stable soil organic carbon: is the path traveled as important as the input itself?
Steve Whittaker (Public Health): Ambient air pollution per specific land use features in the Eastern Caribbean region
Michelle Young (Anthropology): Land management practices and ecological verticality: A study of prehispanic environmental adaptation strategies at Atalla, Huancavelica, Peru
Yiqi Zheng (Geology & Geophysics): Using relationships between photosynthesis and formaldehyde column as a probe of isoprene emission
